Senior ColdFusion Tech Lead — CFML & SQL Expert

Integral; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Earned Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Integral Federal seeks a Lead ColdFusion Developer / Technical Lead to sustain and enhance a mission-critical DISA human capital management application. This hands-on role requires rapid domain expertise, technical analysis, and active coding to support weekly and monthly releases.

You will lead development for ColdFusion/CFML and MS SQL Server, review others’ code, and drive maintainable patterns across the legacy system while collaborating with government stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in CS/IS/Engineering.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on ColdFusion/CFML development.
• Experience as technical lead for a complex production application.
• Expert-level ability to troubleshoot and enhance mature/legacy ColdFusion apps.
• Strong MS SQL Server development and performance analysis.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and web app development.
• Experience with Git-based source control, peer reviews, and controlled release processes.
• Strong root-cause analysis and production-support skills.
• Ability to own complex technical problems and drive resolutions.
• Ability to provide technical direction to other developers without extensive supervision.
• Excellent communication with technical and functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for ColdFusion/CFML development, sustainment, and troubleshooting.
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance complex ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server applications.
• Analyze existing code, business rules, interfaces, database dependencies, and architecture before changes.
• Lead technical decomposition and estimation of RFCs, user stories, defects, and urgent changes.
• Provide technical direction and code review for other developers while coding.
• Establish and reinforce maintainable coding patterns for the legacy application.
• Develop and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, scripts, tables, views, and database interactions.
• Lead root‑cause analysis of complex production issues.
• Collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to clarify requirements and risks.
• Support testing, Fortify scanning, security remediation, and defect resolution.
• Coordinate readiness for weekly releases and monthly deployments.
• Work with system administration, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, testing, and DB personnel.
• Maintain technical documentation on architecture and deployment.
• Mentor developers and share knowledge.

Skills

Active Secret clearance

Software development

Technical leadership

CFML development

SQL Server

HTML/CSS/JS

Git-based source control

Root-cause analysis

Communication skills

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

GitLab

Jenkins

Fortify

DevSecOps tools

Job description

Integral Federal seeks a Lead ColdFusion Developer / Technical Lead to sustain and enhance a mission-critical DISA human capital management application. This hands-on role requires rapid domain expertise, technical analysis, and active coding to support weekly and monthly releases.

You will lead development for ColdFusion/CFML and MS SQL Server, review others’ code, and drive maintainable patterns across the legacy system while collaborating with government stakeholders.